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James Edward Le Rossignol (24 October 1866 – 4 December 1959) was a Canadian-born American professor of economics with a particular interest in socialism, and also the author of several works of fiction with settings in Quebec.
The Nightingale (Russian: Соловей, romanized: Solovey) is a short opera in three acts by Igor Stravinsky to a Russian-language libretto by him and Stepan Mitusov, based on a tale by Hans Christian Andersen: a nasty Chinese Emperor is reduced to tears and made kind by a small grey bird.
Two knights live in adjoining houses, in the vicinity of Saint-Malo in Brittany; one is married and one lives as a bachelor.The wife of the married knight enters into a secret relationship with the other knight, but their contact is limited to conversation and the exchange of small gifts, since a "high wall made of dark stone" [2] separates the two households.
In the era of Louis XIV of France (reigned 1643–1715), Antoine Rossignol and his son, Bonaventure, worked either at their estate at Juvisy near Paris or in a room next to the King's study at Versailles. [10] For him they developed the Great Cipher (also called the Grand Cipher) of Louis XIV. They alone mastered it, encoding letters, memoranda ...
The ballet follows the main plot line of Stravinsky's Le rossignol, based on Andersen's The Nightingale. The first scene shows the Nightingale singing (or in this case, dancing) for the Emperor of China, who is pleased. In the music, the song of the nightingale is chromatic and swooping, it sounds free and natural, like the song of a bird.
Robert Le Rossignol (27 April 1884 – 26 June 1976) was a British chemist. He is most known for his work with Fritz Haber on the fixation of nitrogen from atmospheric air, the Haber process. [1] [2] He was born in Saint Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, and attended school there.
Le Colombe. Words by Arturo Loria (1946) for voice and piano (later became part of Il Bestiario, Op. 188) De Amico ad Amicam. (Lines from a love letter, c. 1300) (1947) for voice and piano; Ballata dall'Esilio. Text by Guido Cavalcanti (1300) (1956) for voice and guitar; Three Little Songs. Text by Ulric Devaré (1958) for voice and piano; Le ...
It reads: "Le rossignol qui du haut d'une branche se regarde dedans, croit étre tombé dans la riviére. Il est au sommet d'un chêne et toutefois il a peur de se noyer." ("The nightingale, from a high branch, sees himself reflected below, and believes he has fallen into the river.